Filter data from database

[Marian]

Hi,

in this forum post you wrote about support for third-party data sources, e.g. web services or databases. In the documentation I could find some stuff about web service support, but nothing about databases.

I assume that it's possible to write a custom database provider based on AutoCompleteProvider but I couldn't find any details. Could you give me some hints how to do that?

Thanks,
Marian

[Deyan]

Hello Marian,

Thanks for writing and for your question.

RadAutoCompleteBox provides you with the ability to generate the filtered suggestions list by calling a remote service: be it a web service or a database. This is done by using the WebServiceAutoCompleteProvider which allows you to handle events when the input changes and return a custom filtered source. Please take a look at this help article which explains how this is done:

http://www.telerik.com/help/windows-phone/radautocompletebox-features-webservice.html

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Deyan
the Telerik team

[Marian]

Hi Deyan,

thanks for your quick reply. I've seen the documentation about WebServiceAutoCompleteProvider but I wasn't aware that it could also be used to access a (local) database in the same fashion. Maybe the documentation should be more clear about that.

Thanks,
Marian

[Deyan]

Hello Marian,

Thanks for getting back to us and for your feedback.

Indeed, the documentation seems to be a bit misleading. We are going to look into it.

Let me know if you have further questions related to using RadAutoCompleteBox.

Kind regards,
Deyan
the Telerik team